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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img width="576" height="103" style="width:6.0in;height:1.0729in" id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D9AF53.CBDC7770" alt="A close up of a logo
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">PRESS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">July 5, 2023 Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> 508-896-3867 ext. 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> <a href="mailto:tizzo@ccmnh.org">tizzo@ccmnh.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><i><span style="color:#333333;background:white">Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph</span></i></span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Local Author Don Wilding</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">BREWSTER, MA — The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents </span><i><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">Shipwrecks
of Cape Cod: Stories of Tragedy and Triumph</span></i><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"> with Cape Cod local author and historian, Don Wilding
<b>Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 1:30pm.</b></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#212121">From the wreck of the Sparrow-Hawk in 1626 to the grounding of the Eldia in 1984, Cape Cod’s outer beach—often referred to as the “Graveyard
of Ships”—saw the demise of more than three thousand vessels along forty miles of shifting shoals. The October Gale of 1841 claimed the lives of fifty-seven sailors from Truro, a devastating toll for a small seaside community. Survivors from the 1896 wreck
of the Monte Tabor in Provincetown were arrested for a suspected mutiny. Aboard the Castagna, which stranded off Wellfleet in 1914, several sailors froze to death in the masts, while the crew’s cat survived. Local author Don Wilding revisits these and many
other maritime disasters, along with the heroic, and sometimes tragic, rescue efforts of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and Coast Guard. He’ll also review one of the most devastating maritime disasters of all, with a look at his most recent book,
<i>Cape Cod and The Portland Gale of 1898</i>.</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#212121">Since the start of the millennium, Don Wilding has been telling stories of Cape Cod Outer Beach history through lectures, video, and the
written word. His previous books are <i>Henry Beston’s Cape Cod</i>: <i>How ‘The Outermost House’ Inspired a National Seashore</i>,
<i>A Brief History of Eastham: On the Outer Beach of Cape Cod</i>, and <i>Shipwrecks of Cape Cod: Stories of Triumph & Tragedy.</i><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">*Book signing to follow the program/Books available in the Museum Shop</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">Tickets: $10 per person Tickets available online at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Program Coordinator/Publicist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">869 Main St. / Rte. 6A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Brewster, MA 02631<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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